Also the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, saying, Thou also shalt not go in thither.
The Lord in anger decreed that Moses himself would not enter Canaan nor lead the people in, for the sake of Israel and because of their conduct. That decree looks to the incident at the waters of Meribah, where the people complained for lack of water and rebelled. There Moses was commanded to speak to the rock but instead spoke in irritation, accused the people in anger, and struck the rock twice. In doing so he failed to trust and honor God before Israel, and his disobedience and failure to follow wholly brought judgment. His sin was sudden rather than deliberate.
The verse belongs to the account of wilderness disobedience and rebellion after leaving Egypt, when the adults of the army that left Egypt were refused entry. The people then journeyed forty years, disobedience altered God's purpose toward Israel, and only two of the adults who left Egypt entered Canaan, alongside whom Moses was also barred. It illustrates that God's promises are upon condition of obedience. Though Moses repented sincerely and God forgave him, the punishment was not removed and he still could not enter the promised land, because his conduct could harm the people.
The verse is part of the words of the Lord in Deuteronomy chapter 1, along with chapters 7 and 8, that must be read in full and heeded and received as admonition for those upon whom the ends of the world are come. As admonition it teaches that connection with God's work requires learning God's word and appreciating and obeying His voice rather than pleading for one's own mind and judgment to be supreme. It forbids following His guidance only as far as agrees with one's own judgment, taking human opinion and judgment as the rule, or living to please self. Instead one is to ask whether a course is the will of the Lord, be molded after His likeness, view everything in the light of Christ's example, copy His self-denial and self-sacrifice, and seek His glory of character, since human standards are feeble and the Lord's standard is perfection of character.
The Lord in anger decreed that Moses himself would not enter Canaan nor lead the people in, for the sake of Israel and because of their conduct. That decree looks to the incident at the waters of Meribah, where the people complained for lack of water and rebelled. There Moses was commanded to speak to the rock but instead spoke in irritation, accused the people in anger, and struck the rock twice. In doing so he failed to trust and honor God before Israel, and his disobedience and failure to follow wholly brought judgment. His sin was sudden rather than deliberate.
The verse belongs to the account of wilderness disobedience and rebellion after leaving Egypt, when the adults of the army that left Egypt were refused entry. The people then journeyed forty years, disobedience altered God's purpose toward Israel, and only two of the adults who left Egypt entered Canaan, alongside whom Moses was also barred. It illustrates that God's promises are upon condition of obedience. Though Moses repented sincerely and God forgave him, the punishment was not removed and he still could not enter the promised land, because his conduct could harm the people.
The verse is part of the words of the Lord in Deuteronomy chapter 1, along with chapters 7 and 8, that must be read in full and heeded and received as admonition for those upon whom the ends of the world are come. As admonition it teaches that connection with God's work requires learning God's word and appreciating and obeying His voice rather than pleading for one's own mind and judgment to be supreme. It forbids following His guidance only as far as agrees with one's own judgment, taking human opinion and judgment as the rule, or living to please self. Instead one is to ask whether a course is the will of the Lord, be molded after His likeness, view everything in the light of Christ's example, copy His self-denial and self-sacrifice, and seek His glory of character, since human standards are feeble and the Lord's standard is perfection of character.